Asia Inside Out

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915, winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.

Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and the author of Tracing China: A Forty Year Ethnographic Journey. She established the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong to promote interregional research and was its honorary director for ten years.

Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University and the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.